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Forex trading, in essence, is a market of people buying different currencies of the world and sell them at a particular time to earn money. The spot market or “forex market” is one of the most volatile market in the world averaging of $4 trillion worth of transactions per day. Money is moving up and down by the seconds that is why, many people, businessmen and investors like it, because its always active, always moving and there’s always an opportunity to earn and profit.

Forex trading is not for the weak at heart or those who are not willing to make any risk. Forex trading is a very risky game and you can potentially lose money in just a blink of an eye. With that said, the only way we can minimize risk is to educate ourselves on how to trade in the forex market. Education and experience is the key here. If you’re looking for that “get rich quick” because a friend told you so about forex, you’re looking at the wrong place.

Forex trading, when you login to your forex trader account, you’ll see a bunch of graphs. And it is what comprises of the forex market. These graphs tell stories of how the price of a particular currency pair moved throughout the day, week, hour, months or year. You should be familiar on how to read these graphs. One of the most popular kind of graph is the one invented by the japanese to trade things in the ancient times. They call it the candle sticks. Candle sticks are well known graph in the forex trading industry and we suggest you also read on that for starters.

Forex philippines is not any different. Since we are playing in a global market, we don’t have to worry about the country we are in as we can always buy foreign currencies and earn money. Of course, there are advantages though in buying your own currency paired with another currency. You know the local news and news may affect the forex market. Being in the same country as the currency you are trading will have huge advantage.

So I finally started doing a post about the basics of forex trading. This post will not tackle the things like how the forex market work as you can head over to babypips.com or post in the comments section for that and we will try to answer you. We will talk about the things you need to get started trading. Things that are important to the success of your trading career and things you need to remember to not go bankrupt.

To keep on trading and learning at the same time and not blowing your account. Your first goal in trading as a newcomer in this business is to last. Not to make profit, but to last. How many months can you go on trading before you hit 0 on your fund. We can mind the profitability later, what you need first and foremost is experience.

1. You Need to Have Money / Capital / Funds / Moolah – In order to make money work for you, you need to have your workers gathered up. Money makes more money if placed in the right spot. You don’t need to have a lot of it, just enough to get you started. $100 – $1000 is probably more than enough.

2. A Trading Account (Real and Demo) – You need a trading account to start trading in forex. There are a lot of brokers around the internet and I suggest you do some research first before giving them your money. There are a lot of scams out there so be careful.

You need a demo account to practice your trading strategy. You need real account to practice your trading strategy with the components of emotions and the feeling of earning and losing money.

3. A Trading Strategy – In any business, you need a strategy and forex is the largest business in the world. Your entry and exit strategy and money management skills will play a big role in your success. Create your own trading strategy and practice it with your demo account for at least 6 months.

You can develop you own trading strategy or customize the strategy of others. You can find a lot of strategy from books and indicators. Do your research well and practice it. Just make sure you follow it when you trade, you already invested a lot of time developing it.

4. Competitiveness – Forex is the battle between the bulls and the bears. The buyers and the sellers. You will win and lose sometimes. The important thing is, do you have what it takes to get back up in case you lose? The players in the forex market are billionaires, banks, retired generals, business tycoons, politicians, managers, retired olympic athletes which are the most competitive people in the world and you’re about to take them head on. You should be well prepared of the lost and keep moving on up to the point till you become successful.

Things You MUST NOT Have

1. Emotions – Its like poker. Emotions cloud your judgement. You need to have a strategy and the discipline to follow it. Do not give in to emotion. Emotion has no place in the market.

This is forex philippines. I’ll be blogging about my forex trading experience on this site. I’m still new at trading with forex and still use demo account to practice how to trade. So you can expect many many mess up and success tradings here. And also some thoughts about a particular trade. I’ll also be putting some things that I learn. Things I stumble on the internet and things learned from forex trading experts.

About me, you can call me Jeff I’m 25 years old (as of this writing) and I’m a businessman. I’m trying to learn forex to have more diversification.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask. We are all here to learn and succeed in forex trading.

When people asks me what I do for a living and tell them I have a business called forex trading, people always jump out of joy and ask me to teach them how to do it. It seems that is rare for someone to encounter such a breed of people that you won’t be able to hide your joy and ask questions. It is a pleasure for me to teach. But it can quickly becomes a frustration when people don’t have the willingness to learn. Only the willingness to ask. There are a lot of forex tutorials, resources and beginner tools on the subject that its quite frustrating now to explain fibonacci, limit orders, SMA, margin and leverage to an average person. We all have those basic stuff online and for free. If you come across a forex trader in your life, do not scare him away by asking newbie questions. Educate yourself first so you can ask interesting question that would express your willingness to learn. You may build a good relationship with that person and might improve your trading.

In a business where your character will be tested, I think everyone should be willing to learn by themselves because after all, it is your money. First ask the question, what is your goal for trading forex. Is it to become a millionaire overnight? Is it to retire young? Or is it just a vehicle for you for wealth building?

Whatever your answer to this question ultimately lead to what kind of strategy you will utilize. Every person is different. And every person have a kind of threshold where he can take a loss and not quit. Everybody is different. So learn about yourself. And create your own strategy. Master the fundamentals and you’ll be able to learn faster. And most importantly, be patient and have self discipline.

I do have my personal goal in forex when I started out last year. I haven’t achieve this goal yet. But I’m seeing positive results now more than ever. And that’s because I never stopped learning.

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